Jail for man who smashed up car with kids inside

A man who was one of a gang that smashed a car with bats while a two-year-old girl was sitting in it has been sentenced to four years with the final two and half suspended.

David McDonnell (aged 31) previously of Rathvilly Park, Finglas, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to violent disorder in Finglas on April 15, 2011. He has 36 previous convictions for road traffic offences and has since moved out of the Finglas area.